Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster both deliver wonderful performances in *Freaky Friday*. I wasn’t certain what to expect from this 1976 version, since I had only previously seen the 2003 remake. Ultimately, I really enjoyed it; it's a funny and delightful film that stands out among Disney’s live-action movies made in the seventies. The movie doesn’t spend much time showing Ellen (Harris) and Annabel (Foster) as …

It’s unlikely I’ll revisit this film, and I can’t really advise anyone to watch it. Seeing a younger Jodie Foster was something of an attraction. Although I understand how this movie helped establish the “body swapping” idea—though I'm still not sure it truly originated here—the execution felt rather unimaginative. It seemed like they had the initial thought, "What if a child and their parent switched places?" …